Richard Michael Barrett (born June 22, 1964 in Providence, Rhode Island), better known as Dicky Barrett, was the frontman of skacore band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

He attended Norwood Junior High School and Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, MA. He was eventually expelled from Xaverian and moved on to Norwood Senior High School, and later Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. He also played in the bands Cheapskates and Impact Unit. Barrett married his wife Rosemary in 2002. Dicky appeared on the track, Cash, Culture and Violence, from the Rancid album Life Wont Wait. After the Bosstones had gone on hiatus he became an announcer on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live". He also hosted the "Mighty Morning Show" on Los Angeles radio's Indie 103.1 FM from 2005 until his firing on March 22 of 2006. Barrett has also been no stranger to the Boston radio market where he has been a regular on all three of Boston's rock stations WAAF, WBCN, and WFNX. In 2005, it was rumored in Boston, that Barrett would be Howard Stern's replacement at heritage rock station, WBCN. Barrett has been a guest on shows that featured jocks like Bradley J at WBCN and Carmelita at WAAF. Richard has also been credited with being "the sexiest man alive." In the mid-1990s, he appeared as a bus driver on the Nickelodeon show "As the School Bus Turns." In 2003 Barrett began working on an untitled solo album, with Lawerence Katz who is also a member of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. The album apparently is a radical departure from the ska-core Bosstones sound. Barrett was quoted as saying that the album will be "more somber, darker". An article further describing the album can be found [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2003/12/16/the_throwdown_no_bosstones_who_knows/ here However there has been no further mention of the album, and the release date is uncertain. Barrett also has a cameo role in the film Home Of Phobia which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival.

External links

• Dicky Barrett's entry on the Internet Movie Database
• An old Interview with Barrett

1964 births | Living people | American rock singers | American radio personalities | American television personalities | People from Rhode Island